The colonnade above him made him think vaguely of an ancient temple and the ashplant on which he leaned wearily of the curved stick of an augur. / He began to beat the frayed end of his ashplant against the base of a pillar.

1928, Mary Butts, Armed With Madness, page 8

She look her hat, and ashplant, and left them.

1969, Seamus Heaney, The Outlaw, line 20-21

"She'll do," said Kelly and tapped his ash-plant / Across her hindquarters.